Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before they were due to cast primary ballots in a special election to pick Joe McCarthy's Senate successor, Wisconsin voters got some eleventh-hour advice from the influential (circ. 354,879) Milwaukee Journal. The Journal front-paged a cartoon of a circus tent and six sideshows, dubbed them former Governor Walter J. (for Jodok) Kohler Jr. and his six G.O.P. opponents. Warned the caption: "Don't be taken in by the sideshows." The voters weren't. In an election where total returns were slimmed to 460,000 (out of 2,200,000 eligibles) by summer...
...Danger exists in merging usually independent small states," Richard Hartshorne said Monday at the opening ses- sion of the conference. Hartshorne, Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, told a Burr Hall audience that "diversity in political units weakens". The separate areas of a political unit must have a "common set of values in government," he said...
EDWARD J. KONKOL Executive Vice President Wisconsin Bituminous Paving Association Madison...
Harvard University's birdlike Frederick Merk, 69, grand chronicler of the American frontier. The grandson of an immigrant German cooper, Merk graduated from the University of Wisconsin, eventually moved to Harvard. There, in the quietest of voices and with the gentlest of manners, he gave the course known to the catalogue as History 162 but to the campus as "Wagon Wheels," which annually reopened the frontier not only to thousands of Harvard students but also to Nieman Fellowship journalists such as A. B. Guthrie, who was inspired by Merk's sweeping narratives to write...
...University of Wisconsin's Edwin E. Witte, 70, onetime Wisconsin farm boy who became a leader of the institutional school of economics that concerns itself not with the "timeless, placeless laws of economics" but with practical solutions to everyday problems. Though round-faced Economist Witte regarded himself as "an old-fashioned teacher" who was never really happy away from the campus on which he had studied and taught so long, he helped draft many a progressive law for his state, wrote the Federal Social Security Act of 1934-35, campaigned constantly against colleagues who were so bent on appearing...